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* Isaac Barrow ( 1630 – 1677 ), English divine, scholar and mathematician
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His tutor at Trinity was James Duport, and his intimate friend and fellow-pupil the celebrated Isaac Barrow.
Isaac Barrow and Baermann used the notation Q. E. A., for " quod est absurdum " (" which is absurd "), along the lines of Q. E. D., but this notation is rarely used today.
* Bishop Isaac Barrow founds the Bishop Barrow Trust to establish a university on the Isle of Man ( King William's College ).
He became a fellow of the Royal Society and the second Lucasian Professor of Mathematics ( succeeding Isaac Barrow ) at Trinity College, Cambridge.
For their ideas on derivatives, both Newton and Leibniz built on significant earlier work by mathematicians such as Isaac Barrow ( 1630 – 1677 ), René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ), Christiaan Huygens ( 1629 – 1695 ), Blaise Pascal ( 1623 – 1662 ) and John Wallis ( 1616 – 1703 ).
Among Whewell's other works — too numerous to mention — were popular writings such as the third Bridgewater Treatise Astronomy and General Physics considered with reference to Natural Theology ( 1833 ), and the essay, Of the Plurality of Worlds ( 1853 ), in which he argued against the probability of life on other planets, and also the Platonic Dialogues for English Readers ( 1850 – 1861 ), the Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England ( 1852 ), the essay, Of a Liberal Education in General, with particular reference to the Leading Studies of the University of Cambridge ( 1845 ), the important edition and abridged translation of Hugo Grotius, De jure belli ac pacis ( 1853 ), and the edition of the Mathematical Works of Isaac Barrow ( 1860 ).
Discovery of this rule is credited to Gottfried Leibniz ( however, Child ( 2008 ) argues that it is due to Isaac Barrow ), who demonstrated it using differentials.
It is reported that in his examination for a scholarship at Trinity, to which he was elected on 28 April 1664, he was examined in Euclid by Dr. Isaac Barrow, who was disappointed in Newton's lack of knowledge on the subject.
He wrote a paper, Analysu per Equationes Numero Terminorum Infinitas, which he put, probably in June 1669, into the hands of Isaac Barrow ( then Lucasian Professor of Mathematics ), at the same time giving him permission to communicate its contents to their common friend John Collins ( 1624 — 1683 ), also James Gregory, mathematician.
* Isaac Barrow ( bishop ) ( 1613 – 1680 ), Bishop of Sodor and Man and of St Asaph ; Governor of the Isle of Man
Newton's friend Isaac Barrow showed a second telescope to a small group from the Royal Society of London at the end of 1671.
The west side was transformed from 1673 onwards when the master, Isaac Barrow, persuaded his friend Christopher Wren to design a library for the college.
Isaac and 1630
Isaac Jaggard had died in 1627, and Edward Blount had transferred his rights to stationer Robert Allot in 1630.
Wilton House was renovated from about 1630 onwards, at times worked on by Jones, then passed on to Isaac de Caus when Jones was too busy with royal clients.
Still their works differ in certain ways, and their character is generally so marked that we shall find little difficulty in distinguishing them, nor indeed shall we hesitate in separating those of Hobbema from the feebler productions of his imitators and predecessors Isaac Ruysdael, Gillis Rombouts ( 1630 – 1678 ), Jacob Feytsz.
The monument is a large outdoor concrete sculpture on the front lawn that pays homage to six of the greatest astronomers of all time: Hipparchus ( about 150 BC ); Nicholas Copernicus ( 1473 – 1543 ); Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 ); Johannes Kepler ( 1571 – 1630 ); Isaac Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ); and William Herschel ( 1738 – 1822 ).
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* 1203 – Isaac II Angelos, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexios IV Angelos co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade.
Alexios was the son of Ioannis Komnenos and Anna Dalassena, and the nephew of Isaac I Komnenos ( emperor 1057 – 1059 ).
Under Michael VII Doukas Parapinakes ( 1071 – 1078 ) and Nikephoros III Botaneiates ( 1078 – 1081 ), he was also employed, along with his elder brother Isaac, against rebels in Asia Minor, Thrace, and in Epirus.
* Isaac Asimov ( 1920 – 1992 ), American essayist, scientist, novelist, written commentator, science fiction writer
As early as 1860, Isaac Spratt, a London toy dealer, published a booklet, Badminton Battledore – a new game, but unfortunately no copy has survived.
Isaac Newton's ( 1642 – 1727 ) mathematical explanation of universal gravitation explained the behavior both of objects here on earth and of objects in the heavens in a way that promoted a worldview in which the natural universe is controlled by laws of nature.
* 1684 – Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.
* Schultheis, Herbert / Wahler, Isaac E .: Bilder und Akten der Gestapo Wuerzburg ueber die Judendeportationen 1941 – 1943.
* 1946 – African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes.
Isaac Baker Brown ( 1812 – 1873 ), an English gynaecologist who was president of the Medical Society of London in 1865, believed that the " unnatural irritation " of the clitoris caused epilepsy, hysteria, and mania, and would remove it " whenever he had the opportunity of doing so ," according to an obituary.
:* Vayeira, on Genesis 18 – 22: Abraham's visitors, Sodomites, Lot's visitors and flight, Hagar expelled, binding of Isaac
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